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51Junk Keying — The Junk Keying (zh cp|c=耆英|p=qíyīng, literally Elder and Brave ; the English name is based on Cantonese pronunciation) was a three masted, 800 ton Foochow Chinese trading junk which sailed from China around the Cape of Good Hope to the United… …
52Nautical Archaeology Society — The Nautical Archaeology Society[1] (NAS) is a charity registered in England and Wales[2] and in Scotland[3] and is a company limited by guarantee[4]. The charitable aims and object of the company are to further research in Nautical Archaeology… …
53Southern Railway (Great Britain) — The Southern Railway (SR), was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. It contained notable examples of civil engineering, linking London with the Channel ports, South West England and Kent. The railway was formed by the… …
54History of Greenwich, Connecticut — The history of Greenwich, Connecticut.Colonial times On July 18, 1640, Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake, along with Feake s wife Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake, in the name of New Haven Colony, bought all the land between the Asamuck and Potommuck …
55Mr. Roboto Project — The Mr. Roboto Project was an all ages, Do It Yourself (DIY), non profit volunteer run cooperative venue and show space in Pittsburgh, PA. Since November 1999 it has been located in a former store front on Wood Street, near the corner of South… …
56Riding officer — The Riding Officer was an occupation common during the eighteenth century around the coastlines of Britain. The principal duty of the office was to visit the coast within their predefined riding range, to meet and correspond with the other riding …
57Orkney Wireless Museum — The Orkney Wireless Museum in Kirkwall, Orkney houses a collection of domestic and military wireless equipment. It developed from the private collection of the late Jim MacDonald from St Margaret s Hope and marks the importance of wireless… …
58James River and Kanawha Canal — The James River and Kanawha Canal was a canal in Virginia, which was built to facilitate shipments of passengers and freight by water between the western counties of Virginia and the coast.Personally surveyed and planned by George Washington… …
59Demography of Liverpool — The demography of Liverpool is officially analysed by the Office for National Statistics. The City of Liverpool together with the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens and the… …
60Beat Generation — The Beat Generation is a term used to describe both a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called beatniks ): a… …
